# Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail (remote · alternativeassetliteracy.com)

Alternative-asset education for retail investors: deep-dive tracks, calculators, advisor lookup.

- Trust score: 66/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-29

## Components

- remote · `alternativeassetliteracy.com`: 66/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp/mcp-retail.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp/mcp-retail)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-29.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS check failed: the endpoint is reachable over plaintext HTTP.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 2421 tokens (~110/item across 22 items; 22 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (77% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 22 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 22 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 20/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2024-11-05; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server?

Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail is a hosted endpoint at https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp 'https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp": {
      "url": "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp]
url = "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp --url 'https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp:
    url: "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp -t streamable-http -u 'https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-28 (score 66, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-26 (score 65, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-25 (score 64, 0)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-24 (score 64)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (22)

### `glossary.lookup` (~64 tokens)

Look Up a Financial Term

Look up a term from the app's 351-term glossary — always free in the app, always free here. Spans alternative assets, DeFi, ESG, behavioral economics, art, and gender lens investing.

Input parameters:

- `term` (string, required): The financial term to look up

### `glossary.search` (~49 tokens)

Search the Glossary

Full-text search across all 351 glossary terms and definitions.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number): Max results (default 10, max 50)
- `query` (string, required): Keyword or phrase to search

### `glossary.browse` (~71 tokens)

Browse the Glossary

Browse all 351 glossary terms by category (Alternative Assets, Art, DeFi & Crypto, ESG & Climate, Behavioral Economics, Gender Lens Investing).

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Category to browse. Omit for all.
- `limit` (number): Max terms (default 25, max 100)

### `learn.list_modules` (~41 tokens)

List Learning Modules

Lists all 9 learning modules with a short description and whether each is free in full or preview-only — the same index as the app's own Learn tab.

Output parameters:

- `modules` (array)

### `learn.module` (~96 tokens)

Read a Learning Module

Returns the actual content (sections, quiz preview) for a learning module, gated exactly like the app: one module free in full, every other module capped at its first section(s)/quiz with the rest listed by title only and a link to subscribe for full access.

Input parameters:

- `module_id` (string, required): Module id or title (e.g. 'mod_art', 'Art as Investment') — see learn.list_modules for the full list

### `facts.random` (~45 tokens)

Get a Random Investing Fact

A short, sourced statistic about women & finance, behavioral economics, alternative investing, or the art market.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Optional category filter. Omit for any category.

### `toolkit.frameworks` (~47 tokens)

Due Diligence / Risk / Tax Frameworks

Full due-diligence/risk/tax checklists for an active plugin subscription (independent of the app's own subscription); otherwise titles and categories only, with a link to subscribe.

Output parameters:

- `items` (array)
- `locked` (boolean)

### `behavioral.brain_map` (~45 tokens)

The Investing Brain Map

Full content (hijack patterns, navigation strategies) for an active plugin subscription; otherwise the 4 region names and one-line functions only, with a link to subscribe.

Output parameters:

- `locked` (boolean)
- `regions` (array)

### `art.learning_track` (~48 tokens)

The Art Investor Learning Track

Full lesson content (including 'Female Artists: An Overlooked Asset Class') for an active plugin subscription; otherwise the 3 track titles and lesson titles only, with a link to subscribe.

Output parameters:

- `locked` (boolean)
- `tracks` (array)

### `art.library` (~33 tokens)

The Art Library

Full summaries for an active plugin subscription; otherwise book/podcast/paper titles and authors only, with a link to subscribe.

Output parameters:

- `items` (array)
- `locked` (boolean)

### `reading.list` (~47 tokens)

Get the Curated Reading List

The app's curated reading list spanning behavioral economics, venture capital, economic history, and policy — always free in the app, always free here.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Optional category filter.

Output parameters:

- `items` (array)

### `disclosures.get` (~59 tokens)

Get Legal Disclosures

Returns the full regulatory disclosure, accredited investor definition, and risk disclosure that apply to this plugin's content — the same language used in the app itself. Call this any time a user asks about risk, eligibility, or what this content legally is/isn't.

Output parameters:

- `accredited_investor` (string)
- `regulatory` (string)
- `risk` (string)

### `explain.holding` (~131 tokens)

Explain an Investment You Own or Are Considering

The complement to third-party MCP connectors that bridge your live brokerage accounts (Fidelity/Schwab/Vanguard-style) into Claude — those show WHAT you own; this explains what it IS. Given an asset type, returns the plain-language glossary term(s) always; for an active plugin subscription, also returns the specific cognitive bias most likely to distort how people think about this asset type and a due-diligence angle, otherwise a locked note.

Input parameters:

- `holding_type` (string, required): The asset type, e.g. 'private equity fund', 'DeFi position', 'art fund', 'ESG fund'

Output parameters:

- `locked` (boolean)
- `terms` (array)

### `gender_lens.learning_track` (~100 tokens)

Gender Lens Investing Track

A dedicated track on investing through a gender lens, treated as its own subject rather than a subcategory of ESG — the wealth gap in real numbers, the underfunding of women-led ventures as a genuine investment thesis, how the strategy works across public and private markets, the history behind the gap, and what the peer-reviewed research does and doesn't support. Full narrative content for an active plugin subscription; otherwise lesson titles and key takeaways only.

Output parameters:

- `lessons` (array)
- `locked` (boolean)
- `title` (string)

### `gdr.deep_dive_track` (~151 tokens)

Gross Domestic Regeneration (GDR) — An Emerging Economic Model

A recently proposed (2026), NOT institutionally adopted alternative to GDP — measuring an economy by what it regenerates (ecological, social, and capital dimensions, treated as interdependent) rather than what it produces. Explicitly caveated throughout as an unvalidated, single-thought-leader framework, grounded against decades of real, verified 'beyond GDP' precedent (Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index, the UN's SEEA Ecosystem Accounting standard, state-level Genuine Progress Indicators, Doughnut Economics). Worth knowing as part of doing your own homework on an investment thesis before acting on it. Full narrative content for an active plugin subscription; otherwise lesson titles and key takeaways only.

Output parameters:

- `lessons` (array)
- `locked` (boolean)
- `title` (string)

### `vc_pe.deep_dive_track` (~104 tokens)

Venture Capital & Private Equity — What They Are, Who Can Access Them, and What a Family Office Actually Is

Why venture capital and private equity exist as their own category of investing, a full breakdown of what 'accredited investor' actually means and the real risk behind that gate (illiquidity, failure rates, manager dependency), and what a family office is — including the real 2026 cost and AUM-threshold numbers behind single-family vs. multi-family office structures. Full narrative content for an active plugin subscription; otherwise lesson titles and key takeaways only.

Output parameters:

- `lessons` (array)
- `locked` (boolean)
- `title` (string)

### `rwa.deep_dive_track` (~108 tokens)

Tokenized Real-World Assets

How traditional assets — Treasury bills, money-market funds, private credit, real estate — get represented as on-chain tokens, who actually holds the underlying asset, where '24/7 instant liquidity' claims hold up and where they don't, and what U.S. regulators have said about it as of early 2026. Grounded in SEC primary sources and live tokenized-asset market data. Full narrative content for an active plugin subscription; otherwise lesson titles and key takeaways only.

Output parameters:

- `lessons` (array)
- `locked` (boolean)
- `title` (string)

### `pe_secondaries.deep_dive_track` (~122 tokens)

PE/VC Secondaries & Continuation Funds

What a GP-led continuation fund actually is, the structural conflict of interest at its center seen from both the GP's and the LP's side, who has a stake in the outcome without a vote (portfolio-company employees, never accredited LPs themselves), the behavioral trap built into the 'roll or cash out' decision, and an honest look at whether longer hold periods serve patient capital or deferred accountability — including a carefully-hedged gender-lens hypothesis. Full narrative content for an active plugin subscription; otherwise lesson titles and key takeaways only.

Output parameters:

- `lessons` (array)
- `locked` (boolean)
- `title` (string)

### `alts.illiquidity_pacing_stress_test` (~404 tokens)

Illiquidity Stress-Test / Commitment-Pacing Model

A real computation, not templated text: models what a multi-year program of private-fund commitments (PE, VC, private credit, etc.) actually does to your cash flow over its life — capital calls, distributions, unrealized value, and the single worst year for net cash flow — using a simplified, transparent adaptation of the Takahashi-Alexander pacing framework used in institutional private-markets planning. Runs against multiple named forward-looking growth scenarios by default, not just a historical-average assumption, so the result is a range, not one confident number. Pass annual_liquidity_budget to see exactly which years a stated liquidity budget would be breached. A free preview shows the peak liquidity need under one scenario; full multi-scenario comparison and year-by-year detail require a plugin subscription.

Input parameters:

- `annual_commitment` (number, required): Dollar amount you'd commit to new private-fund vintages each year
- `annual_liquidity_budget` (number): Optional — your actual annual liquidity budget for capital calls, to flag years it would be breached
- `fund_life_years` (number): Assumed life of each fund vintage in years (default 12)
- `investment_period_years` (number): Years each vintage actively calls capital before calls stop (default 5)
- `rate_of_contribution` (number): Fraction of a vintage's uncalled capital called per year during its investment period (default 0.30)
- `rate_of_distribution` (number): Base annual distribution rate applied to unrealized value, back-loaded via a bow curve (default 0.20)
- `scenario` (string): A single scenario id (historical_baseline, regime_transition, ai_productivity_acceleration, structural_stagnation) to run one scenario only — omit to see the full range (subscription required)
- `vintage_years` (number): How many consecutive years you keep making new commitments (default 5)

Output parameters:

- `locked` (boolean)
- `scenarios` (array)

### `advisors.women_focused_directory` (~140 tokens)

Find an Advisor Who Centers Women Clients

A discovery resource, not a recommendation — durable, self-updating advisor-search networks (NAPFA, XY Planning Network's Women's Finance filter, Garrett Planning Network, CFP Board) plus a short list of individually verified fee-only firms with a genuine, publicly-stated focus on women clients or gender-lens investing, each with the specific public statement it's grounded in. Built on real demand data: McKinsey/Cerulli research on women as a large, fast-growing, and demonstrably underserved segment of financial-advice demand. Free preview shows the durable networks and firm names; full verification details and public-statement citations require a plugin subscription.

Output parameters:

- `durable_networks` (array)
- `firms` (array)
- `locked` (boolean)

### `retirement.monte_carlo_estimator` (~375 tokens)

Retirement Cash-Flow Monte Carlo Estimator

A real Monte Carlo simulation — thousands of trials, not one deterministic projection — estimating the odds your savings and contributions support your stated retirement income target. Deliberately does NOT assume a fixed withdrawal rule like the '4% rule,' since that figure is itself an output of one specific historical regime, not a law; you state your own target income and the tool reports the odds under each named forward-looking scenario. Runs across multiple market-assumptions.js scenarios by default (historical baseline, regime transition, AI-productivity acceleration, structural stagnation) so you see how sensitive your plan actually is to an assumption most calculators bake in silently. Pair with alts.illiquidity_pacing_stress_test to see how an alternative-asset allocation affects overall retirement success odds. Free preview shows the success rate under one scenario; full multi-scenario comparison and percentile detail require a plugin subscription.

Input parameters:

- `annual_contribution` (number, required): Amount contributed per year, in today's (real) dollars, during the years between current_age and retirement_age
- `current_age` (number, required): Your current age in years
- `current_savings` (number, required): Current portfolio balance in today's (real) dollars
- `desired_annual_retirement_income` (number, required): Your own target annual retirement income in today's (real) dollars — required; this tool will not assume a withdrawal rate for you
- `equity_weight` (number): Fraction of the portfolio in equity-like assets, 0-1 (default 0.6)
- `life_expectancy` (number): Planning horizon age (default 90)
- `retirement_age` (number, required): The age you plan to retire and begin withdrawals
- `scenario` (string): A single scenario id to run one scenario only — omit to see the full range (subscription required)

Output parameters:

- `locked` (boolean)
- `scenarios` (array)

### `advisors.registration_check` (~141 tokens)

Check an Advisor or Firm's Public Registration

Free, live lookup against the public, unauthenticated SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) and FINRA BrokerCheck registries — no subscription required for this tool. Returns registration scope (active/inactive, broker-dealer and/or investment-adviser) and whether the public record has any disclosure event on file, merged from both sources since each surfaces a different half of the disclosure picture. Always a starting point for your own due diligence, never a substitute for reading the full public record.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): The advisor or firm name to search for
- `search_type` (string, required): Whether to search for a person or a firm

Output parameters:

- `results` (array)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp/mcp-retail#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-29: 66
- 2026-09-28: 66
- 2026-09-27: 65
- 2026-09-26: 65
- 2026-09-25: 64
- 2026-09-24: 64

## Common questions

### What is the Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server?

Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.alternativeassetliteracy/aal-retail-mcp. Alternative-asset education for retail investors: deep-dive tracks, calculators, advisor lookup. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail).

### Is the Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server safe to use?

Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail scores 66 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server expose?

Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail exposes 22 tools: glossary.lookup, glossary.search, glossary.browse, learn.list_modules, learn.module, and 17 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,421 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server still maintained?

Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 29 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail
- Repository: https://github.com/untitledfinancial/aal-plugins
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp/mcp-retail.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp/mcp-retail.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp/mcp-retail